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This article is from the Electrical Contractor Magazine. The lighting industry continues to explore the potential for lighting solutions to benefit and optimize human health. Studies indicate light has physiological effects that go beyond vision. In recent years, the industry has focused on the effect of light on the human circadian system and how electric lighting choices can affect circadian health.

We hear about LED lighting that fails and in addition to surges taking care when doing maintenance is important to prevent the early loss of life of LED bulbs. To help keep those LED lights working, I am copying the paragraphs below from an email received by Kevin Smith of BrillianceLED.

"Back in the halogen and incandescent days of landscape lighting, it was a common practice by many contractors to install lamps while the system was on. This is known as a “hot ...

Regularly a customer tells me that they do not have enough light in their kitchen. One of the problems that I regularly find is that the bulbs that are being used are BR type bulbs which not necessairly for task lighting. Many times these same customers have PAR type bulbs in their liviing room. After having them put the higher lumen PAR bulbs (850+ lumens) in their kitchen they see a big improvement.